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Newspaper
Cokeville Register
Location
Cokeville, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1916
Page
5
Advertisement touts MONITOR DOUBLE Disc DRILL claiming seed savings of one fifth with wheat and a yield boost up to seven bushels per acre across grains. It argues farmers cannot afford to lose potential gains on every acre.
The article explains a method where agents secretly puncture currency notes to identify suspects. Using a pin, two small holes are made in the eye area of a pictured Indian on a five dollar bill, visible only under light. Additional punctures are placed at the twists of the large numeral five and at the ends of the scrolls near the word five.
Observers note a shift toward European manners in Samoa. Women adopt European clothing and utensils replace native wares. Rice and coffee replace taro and yams as new foods spread among a limited number. Native huts give way to corrugated iron and square American pine houses. Population totals: about 42,000 natives, 1,500 whites and half-castes.
E. J. Crague in the Journal of Geography shows each extra inch of May and June rain above four inches raises wheat value by about 15 million dollars in the Dakotas California Washington Kansas and Nebraska. For corn, each inch above three inches in July in Indiana Illinois Kansas Iowa Ohio and Nebraska adds about 160 million dollars, with droughty July lowering yields by about ten bushels per acre.
Thomas J. Todd a Maryland farmer escaped death when a large tree fell and pinned him. He used a pocket knife to pry saplings apart and free himself after about an hour of pain before a physician dressed his wounds.
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